Chipmakers add up their advances
At the Fall Processor Forum, chipmakers talk speed and arithmetic. NEC, meanwhile, readies a digital olive branch.
At the Fall Processor Forum in San Jose, Calif., processor potentates talk speed and arithmetic. NEC, meanwhile, readies a digital olive branch.
October 11, 2006
blog "We're not focused on gigahertz at all," says Dileep Bandarkar of the company's Digital Enterprise Group.
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Advanced Micro Devices is set to ship the quad-core Opteron chip in mid-2007.
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blog He doubts rumors that Intel might buy the graphics chipmaker to counter AMD's purchase of ATI Technologies.
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Chip builds bridge between Blu-ray, HD DVD
NEC chip that works with both standards could cut the cost of building a player that accomodates Blu-ray and HD DVD discs.October 11, 2006
Intel pounds a new nail in chip-frequency coffin
blog "We're not focused on gigahertz at all," says Dileep Bandarkar of the company's Digital Enterprise Group.October 11, 2006
Sun, Fujitsu promise Sparc speed surge
The two chip designers tout performance improvements set to arrive in their new Sparc models.October 10, 2006
Quad-core Opteron faster at virtualization, AMD says
"Barcelona" processor has features to share multiple operating systems more efficiently.October 10, 2006
Photo: AMD's 'Barcelona' processor
Advanced Micro Devices is set to ship the quad-core Opteron chip in mid-2007.October 10, 2006
IBM's Power6 gets help with math, multimedia
Big Blue's server processor can natively handle base-10 arithmetic and supports AltiVec multimedia extensions.October 10, 2006
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Analyst pooh-poohs Intel-Nvidia merger
blog He doubts rumors that Intel might buy the graphics chipmaker to counter AMD's purchase of ATI Technologies. October 5, 2006
Processor, memory may marry in future computers
Intel researches how to wed memory chips and processor cores, yielding impressive gains in speed and efficiency.September 28, 2006